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JACK ROSS
PROFILE ON
SUNDERLAND MANAGER
By Chris Dunlavy

OPINIONATED: Jack Ross has strong views

CHEAP booze, grotty flats, three-month holidays – most of us remember our student days with misty-eyed nostalgia. Not Jack Ross.
Back in the early Nineties, the 41-year-old was on the cusp of fulfilling a childhood dream.
A Dundee supporter who’d sold programmes as a boy, he’d joined the Dark Blues at 13.
Then, just a year after turning pro, Ross was released. Visions of flash motors and luxury living had become a bed at mum and dad’s.
And instead of making glamorous t...

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